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Experts Address The Global Problem Of News Literacy At Two-Day Workshop

Sarah Shahriari

People of all ages need to be able to tell fact from fake, experts said Wednesday afternoon at a news literacy workshop at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.

Speakers from universities and organizations from Columbia and across the country presented on possible solutions and the global nature of the news and media literacy problem.

“We need to essentially transform the way our students are educated,” said Howard Schneider, the founding dean of the Stony Brook University School of Journalism. “I do think that we are beginning to make progress.”

Schneider helped develop the nation’s first undergraduate course in news literacy. The course has reached more than 15,000 Stony Brook students and over 10,000 students globally.

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